Review: Dagoba Lime
Had an itch to try something new and this time it was the Dagoba Lime bar that received the nod. So far I have had good luck with Dagoba's products (aside from one bar I bought at a standard grocery that was covered in bloom). This is one of the bars I picked up on the Chocolate Safari and I've been saving it while I try other things. The bar is, according to the label, "forest grown organic dark chocolate infused with lime essence and macadamia nuts" and lists a cacao content of 59%. The bar sounds great so lets see whether it delivers the goods in terms of taste.
Upon opening the bar I noticed a strong smell of lime. The smell of lime is almost as strong as the smell of the chocolate, which comes across as very sweet. It's sweet on the tongue as well, with a nice smooth texture. The lime doesn't come forward in the flavor at first, but after you swallow your first bite the taste of lime lingers on your tongue and is there through each bite after that. The lime flavor lingers long after the taste of the chocolate is gone, too.
Another thing of note is the scarcity of the nuts. I'm beginning to think that this is normal for Dagoba. The Brasilia bar didn't seem to have a lot of coconut or nuts in it. This bar seems to have very few actual nuts. If I ate chocolate in larger bites maybe I would get some nut in every bite but I tend to take the approach that you get the same amount of chocolate flavor in a tiny bite as you do in a big one so why rush your way through a bar? I would love for the nuts to be more plentiful.
Aside from my gripe about the nuts I really enjoyed the bar though the lime aftertaste was a little much. The chocolate itself was lovely, as I would expect from Dagoba, so in light of my minor complaints I'll go on record with a score of 8.5 out of 10. A very very good bar that, with a couple of small changes, could become an excellent bar.
Comments
Sereena X Said:
"So far I have had good luck with Dagoba's products (aside from one bar I bought at a standard grocery that was covered in bloom)."
Note to self: Never shop at a grocery store that is covered in bloom.
Dagoba New Moon 74% is my absolute favorite organic chocolate bar.
Posted by: Sereena X | December 20, 2005 10:36 AM
William Kinder Said:
*chuckles*
Should I go with "bloom-covered bar that I bought at a standard grocery store" instead? It's probably what I would have written had I not been posting from work (you should have seen the original typo-ridden verion of the post - it was horrible). Work and writing don't mix well.
Silliness aside, New Moon is one of the bars that I'm looking forward to trying. I love dark chocolate with a cacao percentage in the 70s and have high hopes for it.
Posted by: William Kinder | December 20, 2005 11:48 AM
Sereena X Said:
A person who never heard of chocolate bloom might have thought the store was covered in flowers.
I'll be looking for your review of New Moon. I think the only thing that would improve it would be if Dagoba were to make the bar slightly thinner... it doesn't have an overly high fat content, so it would have a better meltiness (especially in the winter) that way.
Posted by: Sereena X | December 21, 2005 10:31 AM
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